Category Archives: Weird Fiction

To read The Searching Dead is to relax comfortably in the knowledge you are in the presence of a master storyteller at the apex of their craft, one who has studied and absorbed the works of past masters and brings those insights to bear with a thoughtful dignity.

THE SCARLET SOUL is a testament to the love and dedication Swan River Press put into their craft and they should be applauded for the physical allure alone. This is a book one can see becoming an heirloom object. My advice would be to snap up a copy of The Scarlet Soul while they are still available and keep an eye out for future releases by Swan River Press, while their price range is affordable their books are imminently collectible.

VASTARIEN is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The inaugural issue is going to be something unusually special, filled with in-depth essays, interviews, original visual art pieces, weird fiction, terrific poetry, and fascinating hybrid pieces. An interview with Thomas Ligotti and an introduction by him, neither of which have ever been presented in English, are included.

It is often a shopworn and tired cliché to say in the wake of one’s passing, “there will never be another like him,” yet in the case of Mark E. Smith there is indeed a perilous chance this statement will bear true. In this milieu it is not hard to imagine the loss of yet another long-standing English tradition.

With WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON: VOICES FROM THE BORDERLAND Hippocampus Press once again proves why they hold such an esteemed position within the world of weird fiction. As I continue through their Library of Criticism I am continuously impressed with the rigorous standards of scholarship, craft and dedication evident within each volume.

I recently had a conversation with a friend where we discussed the idea that terror is the emotion one feels preceding an event and horror is the emotion one feels witnessing the effects of that event. Gafford employs both to devastating effect within Whitechapel, building a foreboding sense of malaise and then, most importantly, delivering when called upon.

Jac Jemc’s writing conveys the easy grace and simplicity achieved through years of work, sweat and toil that causes onlookers everywhere to say, “Well that looks easy, I bet I could do that,” after watching a championship athlete or performer at work.

UNIVERSAL HARVESTER makes one understand prey animals that stand absolutely still as their doom descends — yet all the while as you are experiencing that slow sense of mounting dread and menace you cannot identify, there is still that all pervading wise and reassuring voice.

The pleasure of watching both a stylistic and an intellectual force emerge and take shape provides its own enjoyment. However the jouissance one derives from reading Barlow’s later tales, where he mastered the alchemical marriage of fascination and dread in such exquisite proportions that a single tale keeps his name alive…

The value of a book such as The Weird and The Eerie is that it endows us with new eyes with which to view those works we are already familiar, offers us fresh avenues of approach and simultaneously points us towards new treasures we have yet to excavate.

I’m sure you can call to mind dozens of times within horror fiction the protagonist reacting “with dawning realization”. Padgett has managed to capture that feeling and evoke it in such a way that you the reader, not one of the characters within a fictional story, experiences this dawning realization.

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(click the image) Available on Kindle Unlimited! Based on H.P. Lovecraft's "The Doom That Came to Sarnath".

(click the image) For fans of Lovecraft's Dreamlands! A young woman must travel to the Dream King’s realm to retrieve an ancient artifact that once belonged to her ancestor. Featuring a unique story and haunting visuals, Orphne is a must-add to anyone”s reading list.

(click the image) Cthulhu pin set inspired by the works and Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft!

(click the image) A text based interactive fiction game of erotic horror set within the Cthulhu Mythos, created by the renowned author H.P. Lovecraft!

(click the image) HERALD: LOVECRAFT & TESLA is a 180-page full-color adventure setting for use with the Savage Worlds roleplaying system. Create your own character to aid Mark Twain's Mythos Resistance against the encroaching forces of the Cthulhu mythos, or play a well known celebrity from the roaring twenties who has secretly been a part of the Mythos Resistance all along!

(click the image) 25 tales of Lovecraftian horror set in the world of business and bureaucracy. Includes stories from Pete Rawlik, DJ Tyrer, David Tallerman, Gordon Linzer, and many more!

(Click the image) The beginning of a series that will provoke with fresh new imaginings of cosmic horror visited upon the land down under, and remind you that when the stars come right, things for the inhabitants beneath the Southern Cross may go very, very wrong.

Click the image for details or to purchase! Awesome Cthulhu t-shirt designs, and much more! Reasonable prices. Click the image to browse!

Click the image for details or to purchase! Awesome Cthulhu t-shirt designs, and much more! Reasonable prices. Click the image to browse!

Click the image. CTHULHU BLUES is the third novel in the Lovecraftian Spectra Files trilogy!

Click the image for details! New England and Lovecraftian tales! These stories range from "Watcher and Keeper". a tale with a Lovecraftian bent, about the real reason Lake Warren in East Alstead, New Hampshire, was created, to the title story which is an alternate history with a dark side.

Click the image for details or to purchase! Embrace the darkness, the haunts of the shadows that surround you. Pull up your covers and enjoy a read. Let yourself drift into that other world; the place where the author controls your vision. See what he sees. Hear what he hears. Relish this collection of short dark fiction stories. -- "Fresh Cut Tales gives us originality and ambition. Solid combination from a writer to watch." ~ Mort Castle, Bram Stoker Award winning author of NEW MOON ON THE WATER

(Click the image) Blending H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos with the numerous mythologies of the earth creating a rich mythic landscape. Two groups of gods once descended on the earth, Lovecraft’s horrific alien, inhuman beings and the superior, god-like race, known as the Watchers.

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